Colorado Science and Technology Park

Source:  https://www.auroragov.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_1881137/File/Business%20Services/Development%20Center/Transit%20Oriented%20Development/Fitzsimons/024173.pdf

I just noticed that they are planning on bulldozing Fitzsimons Golf Course to do this.  I wonder how long it will be before this happens - probably at least 20 years.

Bye Rider

This building at 890 S Havana St is now vacant.

15991 E 13th Place

See: http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19834999/15991-East-13th-Place-Aurora-CO/
The land is for sale, only $65,000 for 0.55 acres.  A great location for an apartment building.  The only problem is that access is horrible.  Still the price is fantastic.

Update:  Already sold.

Tollgate Creek Commons

Source: http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16992902/1100-Dillon-Way-Aurora-CO/

The address is 1100 Dillon Way, Aurora, CO 80011.  The seller wants $8,050,000 for 15.4 acres just south of the 13th Avenue light rail station.  It would be a great location for upscale apartments.

This is just south of the new apartment complex that will be built where the Meadows mobile home community is now.

Trolley Station

This is a proposed development at 16631 E Colfax Ave, which is on the northwest corner of Airport & Colfax.  The land is for sale.  A price isn't listed but I think $10 million sounds about right ($400,000/acre x 24.5 acres).

Link: http://www.landandfarm.com/property/Trolley_Station-2959417/

Schlotzsky's

In  front of Sam's Club, near Abilene & Mississippi.  It has been sitting empty for awhile.

Proposed BRT lines

Source: http://www.copirgfoundation.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/COPIRG%20Transit%20Report_Screen.pdf

So Aurora gets nothing, other than the Colfax and Parker lines.   What about Tower Road?  Iliff/Jewell?

East Reservoir

The East Reservoir, which city officials began researching as a site in 2012, would sit just east of the Aurora Reservoir on the former Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range. Darling said it could be completed in the next decade. Aurora Water is still in the land acquisition process with the Colorado State Land Board and the Rangeview Metropolitan District. Darling said the East Reservoir project has been held up in part by federal agencies, who for years have been working to find unexploded ordinances that potentially remain on the site and could be harmful if not detonated properly.
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/city-officials-say-aurora-close-purchasing-additional-water-storage/

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

Location:  Hampden & Florence

Welcome back to the Nightclub California.  Home of one failed dance club after another.  It has been vacant for about two years.

There is also a closed 50 cent do-it-yourself carwash about a block away with a fence around it.

Westminster Station

Source: http://www.ci.westminster.co.us/Portals/0/Repository/Documents/CityGovernment/Community%20Development/DRAFT%20-%20Westminster%20Station%20Area%20Specific%20Plan%20-%20July%2011,%202016.pdf

The road on the right side is Federal Boulevard.

Proposed Parker-Brighton Highway

Source:  http://reason.org/files/reducing_congestion_denver.pdf

This is an interesting concept for a proposed Parker-Brighton Highway, which would follow Parker Road/CO 83 in the south, Buckley/Airport Blvd/Pena Blvd/Tower Rd in the middle section, and US 85 in the north.  If we use $30 million per line item as a quick cost estimate, with 35 line items, this would cost about $1 billion, to be paid for with tolls.

Westminster Center Station

Source: http://www.ci.westminster.co.us/CityGovernment/CommunityDevelopment/PlanningDivision/CommuterRail/WestminsterCenterStation

Beautiful drawing, but I think it will be at least 10 years until this is done.  Right now the rail station ends near 72nd & Federal.

See also:  Westminster Mall Fiasco

Proposed Jewell light rail corridor

I did this freestyle in Paint in about 5 minutes.  But you can get the idea.  Stations at Aurora Town Center, Alameda & Chambers, Alameda & Buckley, Tower & Mississippi, Jewell & Genoa, Jewell & Gun Club, Jewell & Harvest, Jewell & Powhaton.

Thornton Development Map

Source: https://www.cityofthornton.net/government/citydevelopment/planning/Documents/master-plans/transportation-plan/FutureLandUse_11x17.pdf

Thornton will extend all the way to 168th Avenue.

I-70 Reimagined

This video cracks me up, it is so crazy and will never happen.  Tear down the freeway and plant trees instead!  But I like the out-of-the-box thinking going on here.

Nob Hill

Nob Hill is a parcel of land in Commerce City comprising of about 400 acres of land between E-470 to the west, Picadilly Road to the east, 88th Ave. to the north and 82nd Ave. to the south. It is owned by Cowley Companies.  Here is a sales pitch for it:
 Located five minutes from the airport’s front door, Nob Hill’s immediate visibility and access to DIA make this a prime privately held piece of property. Sharing boundaries immediately at DIA’s western border and Pena Boulevard, the site offers unique views both back to DIA’s iconic terminal and also to the Colorado Rockies and downtown Denver. Nob Hill has a unique access point to the western gate of DIA with the potential of securitized access to DIA’s western airfield and the renewable energy sector of DIA as well as quick access to DIA’s current car rental and air cargo facilities. Nob Hill is a premier location for airport conference/ hospitality, airport technology businesses, support services to DIA, flex-tech and retail. Current access is available to the site at 88th and E-470 with additional future access provided as part of the aerotropolis development plan.
http://www.commercecityaerotropolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cowley-Brochure_FINAL.pdf

Walmart to open e-commerce facility at DIA

The real estate arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has purchased 169 acres of land zoned for industrial use just south of DIA, according to a warranty deed filed in Adams County last month. Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust paid $13.5 million for the land, located near the intersection of East 56th Avenue and Jackson Gap Road in the proposed Porteos mixed-use development site. 

Amazon.com in April announced that it would establish an e-commerce center of its own, located in Aurora at Majestic Commercenter, 19799 East 36th Dr. But according to Wendy Mitchell, president and CEO of the Aurora Economic Development Council, that center sits on just 25 acres, significantly less than what Wal-Mart purchased.
--http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/real_deals/2016/08/walmart-buys-169-acres-near-dia-for-what-could-be.html

Washed Up

Dalke's Laundry has been at Colfax & Yosemite for many years.  But now it is closed and plywood covers the windows and doors.

Update 3/31/2017:
This building has now been demolished.  No word on what will be built there next.

Woody's Pizza is Fired

The address is 7095 E Evan Avenue, near Quebec & Evans.  The location is good, the building is in good shape.  It would be a good location for a sports bar.  But it has been empty about a year.

Eyesore on Iliff

This building at 10575 E Iliff Avenue, appears to have been troubled for a long time.  Google has a series of images of it dating back to 2007.  In 2011-2014, it housed a Safelite AutoGlass, but before and after that it was empty.  Now there is plywood covering the windows, which is a sure sign that the owner has given up on renting it.

This is the 3rd empty or blighted building I have featured in the immediate area, the others being the old Barn Store, and the empty Village on the Park. There is also a vacant 4 acre plot of land on the NW corner of Jewel & Havana, about 4 blocks away from this.